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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "diplomatic courier" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  

Fraud email example:

From: frank white <frank_white09@yahoo.it>
Reply-To: frank_wordwide@yahoo.it
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:02:28 +0100 (CET)
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION SIR / MAR

Dear sir/ mar,

Thanks for urgent reply indicating your concern and interest to my proposal to invest the sum of US$5,000 000.00 in your humble care and supervision in your country. We will need from your humble self the following information to process and procur the claim documents of the fund in your name as the beneficiary of the fund and submite to the appropriate quatars to secure the formal approvals and release of the fund to you the beneficiary. We will need your bank account details if you want to receive the fund through bank wire transfer. Or alternatively, the fund can be delivered to you in a crate as a diplomatic luggage at you doorstep by a diplomatic courier security & finance company on a spacial arrangement. This service is safe, confidential, less cost and fast. (1) Your full name or company name, (2) Your house or office address, (3) Your direct telephone, mobile and fax numbers Your share remains 20% of the money. My colleague and I will meet with you as soon as you
claimed the fund on our behalf for the planed investment in your company and discourse and gree with the partnership agreement and our share in the company will spelt out during our visit. Above all, I would like you to handle this transaction with TOP SECRET because we are still civil servants in an oil and gas company and would not want the transaction to be jeopardise in order not to affect our job and possition. Thank you for your good understanding and o-operation to realize this transaction with us. I am waiting to hear from you to proceed immediately in the transaction and facilitate the documentation processes for your claiming of the the fund.please contact me ugently.

Yours truly
frank




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